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* [RFC] delayed allocation for ext4
@ 2006-12-22 20:20 Alex Tomas
  2006-12-22 20:23 ` [RFC] booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
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From: Alex Tomas @ 2006-12-22 20:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ext4; +Cc: linux-kernel, alex


Good day,

probably the previous set of patches (including mballoc/lg)
is too large. so, I reworked delayed allocation a bit so
that it can be used on top of regular balloc, though it
still can be used with extents-enabled files only.

this time series contains just 3 patches:

 - booked-page-flag.patch
   adds PG_booked bit to page->flags. it's used in delayed
   allocation to mark space is already reserved for page
   (including possible metadata)

 - ext4-block-reservation.patch
   this is scalable free space management. every time we
   delay allocation of some page, a space (including metadata)
   should be reserved

 - ext4-delayed-allocation.patch
   delayed allocation itself, enabled by "delalloc" mount option.
   extents support is also required. currently it works only
   with blocksize=pagesize.


all the patches can be used in ftp://ftp.clusterfs.com/pub/people/alex/2.6.20-rc1/

the series passed basic tests like dd/dbench/fsx.

any comments/questions are very welcome.

thanks, Alex

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2006-12-22 20:23 ` [RFC] booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2006-12-22 20:25 ` [RFC] ext4-block-reservation.patch Alex Tomas
2006-12-23 22:40   ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-23 22:47     ` Alex Tomas
2006-12-22 20:28 ` [RFC] ext4-delayed-allocation.patch Alex Tomas
2006-12-23 22:59   ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-12 14:45   ` Valerie Clement
2007-01-12 14:52     ` Alex Tomas
2006-12-23  3:31 ` [RFC] delayed allocation for ext4 David Chinner
2006-12-23  9:27   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-23 19:15     ` Alex Tomas
2006-12-29  2:50     ` David Chinner
2006-12-23 19:09   ` Alex Tomas
2006-12-29  2:52     ` David Chinner
2006-12-29  4:56       ` Alex Tomas

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